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Sentence Examples The blocks of limestone in the forest's ravine are covered with lush growths of mosses, lichens, liverworts and walking ferns. The same grey limestone paves a forecourt which is set with benches and some of the more architectural exhibits like Guardi's stone architrave. A seamount capped by limestone was incorporated into the accretionary prism north of the arc in Cambrian-Early Ordovician time. Corundum occurs as an accessory mineral in some metamorphic rocks, such as mica schist, gneiss, and crystalline limestone. The chaste but imposing exterior is revetted with a grid of limestone slabs and punctuated by broad wooden doors. Most structures were built in limestone gypsum and are an eclectic mix of Assyrian, Hellenistic, Parthian and Roman styles. The Yellowwood grows in the rich moist soils of hardwood forests, especially along stream banks, limestone cliffs, and valleys. The Sphinx-shapers may have started with a limestone yardang near the edge of the Giza plateau, El-Baz suggested. In addition to the volcanogenic sedimentary rocks, there are lenses of limestone, quartzite, shale and sandstone. Fuchsia, blackthorn, limestone and seashore combine to make this a truly idyllic location, perfect as a weekend retreat or holiday home. Limestone, especially limestone pavement, is extremely rare worldwide and the Yorkshire Dales have half of all the UK examples. This cave is set in a limestone massif on the left bank of the river Verdouble. It has a rich and varied flora due to a combination of limestone ledges and limey soils, and separate areas of non-limy glacial deposits. The large blocks of relatively soft limestone could be quarried with hard stone tools. It's a deep gorge carved out years ago to drain the limestone quarry into Lake Michigan. It presents a visual panorama like no other, mile upon mile of terraced hillsides clad in limestone pavements. By day he was working in a limestone quarry, carrying buckets of stones on a yoke. He was a crack skier and mountaineer, whose strength had been built up breaking up stones in a limestone quarry during the war. The bleak landscape is shaped by a series of cliffs, terraces and expanses of limestone pavement, with little else to punctuate the view. Polycarpon tetraphyllum is a widespread weed of gardens, limestone areas and woodlands from Exmouth to Bunbury. Show More Sentences The use of limestone for the water table, belt course, rusticated jack arches, and pilaster capitals is unique in Kent County architecture. Turn right here off the limestone pavement and follow the stepped path down to the cove itself. The bench consists of calcareous algae and worm shells which cover the limestone and make it resistant to the wave action. The mostly limestone facades, durable and restrainedly luxurious, are pure emanations of the New York skyscraper vernacular tradition. The walking leaf species is found mostly in shady areas on moist, mossy boulders and rock crevices often associated with limestone outcrops. The limestone pavement gives the island a character akin to the Burren with a similar flora. The aisles and nave of the church are connected by arches which are held up by 18 imposing stone pillars made from well chiselled limestone. Walking on wet limestone is like walking on ice and the windswept nature of the region makes death from exposure a very real threat. No ashes or charcoal were found in association with the limestone pavement, nor were the bones burned. And the top itself is magic, a flow of fissured limestone pavement with very deep grikes, so the beer cans are out of sight. The Mediterranean soils of terra rossa on a limestone bedrock are suited to extensive cereal culture and to dry arboriculture. The panels, which are to be made of concrete and limestone aggregate, will create horizontal bands of shadows on the exterior. The pump looks resplendent in a new coat of red paint and overlooks a limestone trough filled with luscious red and purple flowers. While up on the limestone pavement looking at the flowers in the cracks, some old guy with his own border collie stared at us from a distance. Turkish and Italian limestone, for example, is harder than English limestone. There are two rock gardens, limestone and sandstone, a scented garden, a stream garden, a woodland garden, a bog garden and a dry garden. The walls were rebuilt with yellow limestone and the towers rebuilt with stones so they couldn't be set aflame anymore. Copper is relatively soft, and long-term exposure to sharp pieces of limestone may cut through the pipe and lead to leaks. Thanks to the Grassington Festival I have learnt to build dry stone walls in limestone as he would have done. Subsidence sinkholes are diagnostic landforms of karst, which form in unconsolidated soils or drift deposits overlying cavernous limestone. Show More Sentences It was here they built their homestead of local stone and limestone carted in from further out on the run. The other, the Longhoughton quarry, is located in the contact between the Great limestone and the whin sill intrusion. The other key aspect of the restoration involved repointing the exterior masonry, in the facades of limestone, sandstone, and granite. To the east is a range of hills with limestone and sandstone plateaux, and on the east bank of the Gulf of Suez is the Sinai desert. Karst landscapes are developed wherever soluble carbonate rocks outcrop and where surplus rainfall is available to dissolve the limestone. A rabbit scampered through a patch of limestone pavement, in and out of the deep fissures and we climbed a bit in a small gully. Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and limestone throughout the region. The porte-cochere piers are composed of granite bases, banded brickwork with 1-inch radiused returns, and limestone caps. The geology here is alternating layers of limestone and shale topped with millstone grit. The flue gas is passed through an aqueous limestone slurry containing formic acid. The limestone is highly fractured and contains abundant calcite and quartz veins. In the Lower Devonian, ammonoids appeared, leaving us large limestone deposits from their shells. Geologists will thrill to the revelation of the layers of limestone, shale and sandstone. Sporadic outcrops of ophiolite lithologies are surrounded by shale and limestone. Individuals can be collected by hand from weathered portions of the limestone. Only in the color difference between new and weathered limestone are there obvious hints at the distinction. The cave offers an in-depth view of the immense layers of limestone rock formed by the sedimented shells. Everywhere sounded the drip of icewater, rubbing away at banded marble and rough limestone. The unit consists of limestone or calcareous mudstone and was deposited in a fully marine environment. She was picking out pieces of limestone with a golden, jeweled dagger when she heard a deep, dangerous voice. Show More Sentences In Jamaica, extensive bauxite deposits are found overlying limestone and dolomite. The insides are festooned with lively Portuguese limestone tiling and tinted glass light wells. Monart House is an 18th century sandstone house with limestone quoins and dressings, extending to three storeys over basement. The first fossils from this area were found in 1819 in limestone along the lake's shore, and new species continue to be found there. A few wayfaring trees were planted and these also occur locally on clay soil over limestone. The houses were located on raised limestone beach ridges from 8 to 22 m above sea level. The Haluut Bulag melange contains lenses of limestone, sandstone, chert, tuff, minor acid volcanic material, and vesicular basalt. He used a flat limestone on which the design was drawn with a water-repellent, greasy substance like a crayon. Most commercial marble formed more than 230 million years ago, when heat and pressure within Earth's crust rearranged the molecules in limestone, forcing it to recrystallize. For those whose memories of geography lessons begin and end with vague notions about ox-bow lakes and limestone pavements, this may be hard to believe. Once inside the south ambulatory, light from an unseen set of windows above creates dashes of illumination along the Spanish Jana limestone floor. Situated in the magnificent landscape of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Winskill Stones is a 74-acre area of limestone grassland and limestone pavement. He recognized two different fossil fauna assemblages in the limestone and the divided the limestone into two distinct lithologic units of Devonian and Mississippian age. The Backbone was a half-mile of barren limestone only fifty feet in width with nearly vertical sides and a few boulders and a few clumps of pines dotting its top. The little street leads to a watergate, a beach and limestone sea-cliffs. Twenty-two samples for radiolarian research were collected from the grayish black, thin-bedded limestone and siliceous limestone of the Baoqing Member and the Mcishan Member. They pointed out that while most minerals had fully ad valorem rates of royalty at present, iron ore, limestone and dolomite had tonnage-based royalty. It will go to the Hutton Roof Crags nature reserve, which contains some of the finest limestone pavement in Britain, and also harbours a wealth of rare plants and animals. The Burren is the largest landscape of bare limestone pavement in Europe. The woodland gardens which surround the house have been well maintained and include a water feature, three stables, dog kennels and patio area paved with limestone flags. Show More Sentences Allithwaite, which lies to the west of Grange, north of Kents Bank, is also close to picturesque Humphrey Head, the tallest limestone cliff in Cumbria. The Project will help to conserve the area's internationally important limestone country with its unique limestone pavement, blue-moor grassland and lime-rich wetlands. Belgium is also an important producer of several industrial minerals, including limestone, dolomite, whiting, sodium sulfate, silica sand, and marble. Renovations included cleaning limestone walls, refinishing the wood beam ceiling, and installing an elevator, restrooms, and new lighting, mechanical, and sound systems. The characteristic solid grey limestone was quarried from the east face of the Rock of Gibraltar as well as being shipped across from a Spanish quarry outside Algeciras. Where the limestone has been cut by Late Tertiary veins, it has been recrystallized and slightly mineralized but contains no commercial ore deposits. Statues, old stone troughs, urns, grain store mushrooms, garden seats, limestone pavements and even complete fountains are all being targeted by organised gangs. Invented in the late 18th century, stone or plate lithography uses an inked slab of limestone or a specially treated metal plate to transfer an image to paper. The church is circular in shape and it is covered by an impressive dome which is styled on the Pantheon, with lacunars and rosettes carved from limestone. The underlying limestone karst topography allows water to flow in abundant underground rivers, feeding the numerous springs, which flow into the many creeks and streams. These buildings would be suitable for conversion to offices and are believed to have been built using local black limestone which was rendered at a later date. Marl prairie is a relatively diverse floristic association dominated by grasses, sedges, and rushes growing on thin limestone soils that are seasonally flooded. One limestone bed from the top to the central High Atlas upper basalts yielded a Late Triassic palynological assemblage. In the Little Karoo the outcrop is composed of limestone, into which an underground stream has carved the impressively extensive Cango Caves. Sulfur dioxide may also be removed by dry desulfurisation by injection limestone slurry into the flue gas before the particle filtration. Foster Yeoman is Europe's large supplier of limestone aggregates, with quarries at Merehead Quarry. Between the areas of chalk and limestone downland are clay valleys and vales. Menkaure's Pyramid, likely dating to the same era, was constructed of limestone and granite blocks. Dorset has a number of limestone ridges which are mostly covered in either arable fields or calcareous grassland supporting sheep. The harbour, and the chalk and limestone hills of the Isle of Purbeck to the south, lie atop Western Europe's largest onshore oil field. Show More Sentences Where the land rises to the sea there are several parallel strata of Jurassic rocks, including Portland limestone and the Purbeck beds. This separation began in the Middle and Late Triassic, when limestone began to be deposited in the area. It now amounts to only a chain of limestone shoals remaining above sea level. Very few mineral deposits of Buru have industrial value, and only limestone is mined commercially. The substrate of the island is either directly volcanic or from uplifted coral limestone. The Florida peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone sitting atop bedrock known as the Florida Platform. The limestone is topped with sandy soils deposited as ancient beaches over millions of years as global sea levels rose and fell. Stone sculpture also took other forms, such as the limestone relief panels at Palenque and Piedras Negras. The local limestone is relatively soft when freshly cut, but hardens with exposure. The sediments to the west of the Ural Mountains are formed of limestone, dolomite and sandstone left from ancient shallow seas. The foundations rest on plates of Istrian limestone placed on top of the piles, and buildings of brick or stone sit above these footings. On the Atlantic east coast of the island coastal landforms, including stacks, have been created due to the limestone composition of the area. In the second step, the sodium sulfate is crushed, mixed with charcoal and limestone and again heated in a furnace. In 1791, the French chemist Nicolas Leblanc patented a process for producing sodium carbonate from salt, sulfuric acid, limestone, and coal. Because the Solvay process recycles its ammonia, it consumes only brine and limestone, and has calcium chloride as its only waste product. The calcium carbonate, in the form of limestone or chalk, should be low in magnesia and silica. Industrially important source rocks which are predominantly calcium carbonate include limestone, chalk, marble and travertine. Agricultural lime, powdered chalk or limestone, is used as a cheap method for neutralising acidic soil, making it suitable for planting. Calcination of limestone using charcoal fires to produce quicklime has been practiced since antiquity by cultures all over the world. This same process is responsible for the formation of stalactites and stalagmites in limestone caves. Show More Sentences The limestone he used was the Pennine Carboniferous limestone of the area, which was used for paving in the towns and on the turnpike roads. It was developed from other types of hydraulic lime in England in the mid 19th century, and usually originates from limestone. A deposit of cement was formed after an occurrence of oil shale located adjacent to a bed of limestone burned due to natural causes. Many routes crossed the Pennines between Lancashire and Yorkshire, enabling salt, limestone, coal, fleeces and cloth to be transported. Once all the steel has melted, slag forming agents, such as limestone, are added. Its buildings, mostly constructed with the local grey limestone, have earned it the nickname Auld Grey Town. The summit of Hampsfell is surrounded by several flat, incised areas of exposed limestone, called limestone pavement. Sedimentary rocks most likely to form cliffs include sandstone, limestone, chalk, and dolomite. The low rolling hills of Low Furness are formed of glacial deposits, mainly boulder clay, above Triassic sandstone and Carboniferous limestone. The hill is prominent from the A590 road with its steep limestone cliffs, laid down in the Carboniferous period some 350 million years ago. The limestone islands of Flat Holm and Steep Holm are prominent in views across the mouth of the Severn Estuary. The limestone is concealed beneath younger rocks to the east and west and to the north through the South Pennines. To the north the limestone is exposed once again in east Lancashire and in the Yorkshire Dales. Streams flowing from higher impermeable slopes sink into the ground when they reach permeable limestone. During dry spells all water sinks very quickly on reaching the limestone, through sinkholes. In wetter conditions water flows a greater distance across the limestone as underground channels and chambers fill up. After the ice retreated, the valley was further developed by a meltwater stream flowing across the limestone while it was frozen solid. A limestone pavement is an area of almost bare, flat rock and is arguably the most fascinating feature of any area of carboniferous limestone. It is cold underground so there is little evaporation but some does take place leaving a trace of limestone on the roof. When the water drips on to the floor of the cavern some evaporation occurs here also leaving a trace of limestone. Show More Sentences Scout Scar and Cunswick Scar are both formed of carboniferous limestone and dip gently towards the east with a steep western scarp slope. There is a car park in an old limestone quarry not far from the summit of Scout Scar. Most moorland and gritstone escarpments are in the Dark Peak and most settlements, farmland and limestone gorges are in the White Peak. The Peak District's limestone is more unstable but provides many testing climbs. Here the limestone Apennines proper cease and the granite mountains of Calabria begin. The most important in terms of the river are the extensive sandstone and limestone aquifers that underlie many of the tributary catchments. Water, minerals and specific rock strata such as limestone found inside anticlines are also extracted and commercialized. In neighbouring limestone areas, gritstone has often been preferred in the past for use as gateposts and lintels. The experiments show that there is complex system of caves and tunnels within the limestone cliff. The areas of Millstone Grit form an 'inverted horseshoe' around the lower uncapped limestone areas of the White Peak. Cross Fell and the adjoining fells are mainly a bed of hard, carboniferous limestone. On the western side of Ingleborough is a large limestone plateau appropriately known as White Scars. The Millstone Grit is, in turn, underlain by limestone rocks from the lower Carboniferous period. As a result of limestone quarrying, lead mining and coal mining, the Wear valley was amongst the first places to see the development of railways. The former cement works at Eastgate, until recently run by Lafarge, was based on an inlier of limestone. Mid Wensleydale is made of Great Scar limestone under Yoredale beds that make up the valley sides which are marked with stepped limestone scars. Lower down on the flood plain, the nature of the underlying ground is Magnesian limestone over alluvium and terrace drift deposits. Dovedale's attractions include rock pillars such as Ilam Rock, Viator's Bridge, and the limestone features Lovers' Leap and Reynard's Cave. The heating of the limestone above the rock also caused it to be turned into a crumbly marble known as Sugar Limestone. To the north parts are built on older sandstone and gritstones and to the east it extends into the magnesian limestone belt. Show More Sentences Many quarry stones such as marble, granite, limestone, and sandstone are cut into larger slabs and removed from the quarry. The road winds its way north from Simonstone near Hawes towards Thwaite and Muker past 20 metre deep limestone potholes called the Buttertubs. The upper parts of the dale are particularly striking because of its large old limestone field barns and its profusion of wild flowers. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists. Sunday houses were often made of limestone rock coated with whitewash inside and out. Parkside Farmhouse at Castle Farm is a listed building, built in the early 19th century with squared limestone walls and purple slate roof. Across a broad swathe of the Maya area, limestone was immediately available. Water has carved out gorges, caves and limestone landscapes in the Yorkshire Dales and Peak District. On the limestone soils the oak was slower to colonize and pine and birch predominated. Each, except the south west chamber, has shallow limestone sillstones at its entrance. Ground limestone or other suitable calcium compounds should be used when feeding grains and grass hays, as grasseous plants are short in calcium. Their geological composition includes, among others, sandstone and limestone, and also coal. There are no high summits in this area which is mainly low hills, knolls and limestone cuestas such as Gummer's How and Whitbarrow. Each of these structures consists of Carboniferous limestone overlain with Millstone Grit. The limestone is exposed at the surface in the north of the range, in the North Pennines AONB, and in the south in the Derbyshire Peak District. In the Yorkshire Dales and the White Peak the limestone exposure has led to the formation of large underground cave systems and watercourses. Erosion of the limestone has led to some unusual geological formations, such as the limestone pavements at Malham Cove. The process was developed into its modern form by Ernest Solvay during the 1860s and it requires salt brine and limestone as basic raw materials. As most ores are impure, it is often necessary to use flux, such as limestone, to remove the accompanying rock gangue as slag. Show More Sentences It incorporates crop residues, solid manures, limestone and commercial fertilisers along with oxygen. The region is home to large quantities of limestone, and the East Midlands Oil Province. The east of the region is characterised by wide, flat clay vales and chalk and limestone downland. Most grains in limestone are skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera. The primary source of the calcite in limestone is most commonly marine organisms. Coquina is a poorly consolidated limestone composed of pieces of coral or shells. Two major classification schemes, the Folk and the Dunham, are used for identifying limestone and carbonate rocks. Each name is based upon the texture of the grains that make up the limestone. Karst topography and caves develop in limestone rocks due to their solubility in dilute acidic groundwater. Bands of limestone emerge from the Earth's surface in often spectacular rocky outcrops and islands. Unique habitats are found on alvars, extremely level expanses of limestone with thin soil mantles. Another area with large quantities of limestone is the island of Gotland, Sweden. The world's largest limestone quarry is at Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company in Rogers City, Michigan. Many landmarks across the world, including the Great Pyramid and its associated complex in Giza, Egypt, are made of limestone. Train stations, banks and other structures from that era are normally made of limestone. Beer stone was a popular kind of limestone for medieval buildings in southern England. Many limestone statues and building surfaces have suffered severe damage due to acid rain. People can be exposed to limestone in the workplace by inhalation of and eye contact with the dust. Karst topography is a landscape formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. Sulfuric acid then reacts with calcium carbonate, causing increased erosion within the limestone formation. Show More Sentences Typically this will involve a cover of sandstone overlying limestone strata undergoing solution. Due to the nature of the uplifted beds, the Arbuckle Mountains contains a sequence of limestone ridges and shale valleys. This causes waterfalls to develop where creeks descend over a limestone ridge into a shale valley. Evidence of these nomadic tribes has been found in limestone caves located on the Nottinghamshire border. During the Roman invasion the invaders were attracted to Derbyshire because of the lead ore in the limestone hills of the area. Some time after its deposition, mineral veins were formed in the limestone. Glacial meltwaters also contributed to the formation and development of many of the caves in the limestone area. The limestone plateaux of the White Peak are more intensively farmed, with mainly dairy usage of improved pastures. Beneath the ground, the potholer enjoys natural caves, the potholes and old mine workings found in the limestone of the Peak. The soils are largely based on limestone, and the climate is temperate with steady amounts of rainfall. The landscape is principally granite moorland in the west, and chalk and limestone downland and clay vales in the east. The hills are largely made of carboniferous limestone, which is quarried at several nearby sites. The UK is also rich in a number of natural resources including coal, tin, limestone, iron ore, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, lead and silica. Alternating sandstone and limestone created a most pleasing decorative effect. Currently, Malta's major resources are limestone, a favourable geographic location and a productive labour force. The country's cement industry depends on limestone imports from North East India. Under pressure, the heated water rises to the surface along fissures and faults in the limestone. The limestone used was imported from Caen in Normandy, and Purbeck marble was used for the shafting. Binders hold the mix together and can include clay, lime, chalk dust and limestone dust. The raw materials, coal, iron ore, limestone and clay, for the manufacture of iron, tiles and porcelain are exposed or easily mined in the gorge. Show More Sentences Anegada is geologically distinct from the rest of the group and is a flat island composed of limestone and coral. The country also has significant deposits of gypsum, limestone, and smaller quantities of copper, silver, gold, barite, and dolomite. The centre of the island is moorland and the island's main industries have been peat extraction and limestone quarrying. The mountains are granite, sandstone, limestone with karst areas, and basalt formations. Such rivers are frequently found in regions with limestone geologic formations. Stone walls are usually made of local materials varying from limestone and flint to granite and sandstone. Elaborately carved marble and limestone sarcophagi are characteristic of the 2nd to the 4th centuries with at least 10,000 examples surviving. In the extreme east of the metropolitan county there are younger deposits of magnesian limestone. Merthyr was close to reserves of iron ore, coal, limestone, lumber and water, making it an ideal site for ironworks. In the British Isles, it is found only on limestone cliffs on the Gower Peninsula, from Worm's Head to Pwlldu Head. They are mostly built from the same carboniferous limestone used at the castle. The Blaenavon Ironworks, now a museum, was a major centre of iron production using locally mined or quarried iron ore, coal and limestone. Other elements of the Industrial Landscape are the mines and quarries from which coal, iron ore, fire clay and limestone were extracted. Although requirements vary, overall there is a preference for acidic soils, although some species will grow on limestone. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash. An example of this is Enallaster, which exists by the thousands in certain outcrops of limestone from the Cretaceous period in Texas. Hard rocks such as limestone, sand, gravel, and slate are generally quarried into a series of benches. Carboniferous rocks in Europe and eastern North America largely consist of a repeated sequence of limestone, sandstone, shale and coal beds. The Jurassic is named after the Jura Mountains within the European Alps, where limestone strata from the period were first identified. Dolomitic and chert ooids are most likely the result of the replacement of the original texture in limestone. Show More Sentences Oolitic hematite occurs at Red Mountain near Birmingham, Alabama, along with oolitic limestone. The town of Oolitic, Indiana, was founded for the trade of limestone and bears its name. In southern Europe, the Cretaceous is usually a marine system consisting of competent limestone beds or incompetent marls. In shallower waters, limestone beds were laid down in the area now near Torquay and Plymouth. Monuments and sculptures made from marble and limestone are particularly vulnerable, as the acids dissolve calcium carbonate. Greece and the Levant also retain many units of limestone and other sedimentary rocks deposited by various stands of the Tethys Ocean. These would originally have been connected to the mainland and surrounded by areas of less resistant limestone. The light was produced by a furnace at the top and the tower was built mostly with solid blocks of limestone. Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar, Somerset, England. During the ice ages permafrost blocked the caves with ice and frozen mud and made the limestone impermeable. Bristol is part of a limestone area running from the Mendip Hills in the south to the Cotswolds in the northeast. The rivers Avon and Frome cut through the limestone to the underlying clay, creating Bristol's characteristically hilly landscape. To the west the Avon cuts through the limestone to form the Avon Gorge, aided by glacial meltwater after the last ice age. When these organisms die, their skeletons sink to the bottom, forming a thick layer of calcareous mud that may lithify into limestone. Calcareous sediment that sinks below the lysocline dissolves, as a result no limestone can be formed below this depth. Many cyanolichens are small and black, and have limestone as the substrate. Where there are porous limestone terraced islands these are generally poor in nutrients. Samples from interlayered limestone in lava flows provided unreliable palynological data. VectorSeis imaging of PS waves from lower Zechstein limestone reefs brought new, essential information, and we achieved the survey objectives. In the lower part of the study area, shelly limestone outcrops with abundant karstic voids are observed. Show More Sentences Nearly 3,000 limestone islands, called karsts, emerge mystically from the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. The ship, which was carrying a consignment of limestone, broke in half. It was fronted in ashlar limestone, with leaded stained-glass windows and huge bay columns. The soils of the studied area are limestone and pebble rendzinas with sandy loam texture. The area is covered with limestone outcroppings that are interspersed with rockweed. In addition, the bedding plane of the limestone was used to determine the direction in which flakes were struck off the core. Halting the extraction of limestone pavement in Cumbria and stopping any new peat extraction sites are two massive achievements. The main street, called Placa or Stradun, is a wide backbone of polished limestone pavement lined with stately 17th-century shops and housing. Passengers from the giant cruise ships berthed in Gruz port had taken over the gleaming limestone pavements of the Stradun in the Old Town. As we neared the tremendous Malham Cove, I was determined to make it to the top and look out across the limestone pavements. It's a challenging climb to the top but once there you can have fun jumping over the craggy limestone pavements, bird watching or sunbathing. Most plants, even those that grow on bedrock outcrops and limestone pavements, require 15 cm of soil, so planting choices were limited. If you choose limestone, make sure that it's mined limestone and not from the increasingly endangered natural limestone pavements. Fine-nodular argillaceous marlstone to argillaceous limestone with a wavy, limonitic discontinuity surface at the top. Mesopteris tonkinensis grows in roadsides or is lithophytic on limestone with mosses. This marble typically has a granoblastic saccharoidal texture due to metamorphic recrystallization of limestone. As part of the transaction, LTV Steel has agreed to continue purchasing limestone from Presque Isle for three years at market prices. These included local limestone walling, timber sarking board and timber roof trusses. It lies on a broad expanse of clay and limestone, very different from the friable schistose soils at Chteau Sainte Marguerite. Bolton gets its very own mineral, boltonite, a grayish-yellow granular rock found in limestone in that town. Show More Sentences The Popelogan North and South zones are hosted by a skarn formed around apophyses of the Popelogan granodiorite stock and related dykes and sills intruding Silurian limestone. Within England and Wales, the entire limestone succession, which includes subordinate mudstones and some thin sandstones, is known as the Carboniferous Limestone Supergroup. Martin Engineering designed an innovative solution to address ratholing and clogging of limestone dust in the main hopper at CRH Roadstone's Waterford facility in Ireland. It is a mixture of woodland, grassland and limestone pavement. Iron, bauxite, manganese, clays, limestone and silica are mined. In the carbonate reservoir the well found a 25 metres gross gas column above a 75 metres gross oil column in karstified and dolomitized limestone. The loess cover, however, is not always uniform, particularly in the upper parts of valley slopes where underlying karstified limestone can be exposed at the surface. The island's white sandy beaches, crystal clear waters and limestone karsts have made it a preferred location for movie producers from around the world. The world's largest limestone karst is Australia's Nullarbor Plain. Many medieval churches and castles in Europe are made of limestone. The fluvial cirque or makhtesh, found in karst landscapes, is formed by intermittent river flow cutting through layers of limestone and chalk leaving sheer cliffs. Products which incorporate limestone, fly ash, blast furnace slag, and other useful materials with pozzolanic properties into the mix, are being tested and used. It was named because of the similarity of its color to Portland limestone, quarried from the English Isle of Portland and used extensively in London architecture. About 460 units of CULTEC's Recharger 150 were installed in a 14,580-square-foot bed of crushed limestone, providing 21,175 cubic feet of storage. Called petrifying springs, they are quite common in limestone districts. It is a fine powder, produced by heating limestone and clay minerals in a kiln to form clinker, grinding the clinker, and adding small amounts of other materials. The grinding technology of the time consisted only of flat millstones, and it was more economic to comminute the limestone by burning and slaking than by grinding. Although his experiment was a success, it did increase the amount of aluminium ions in the area of the brook that was not treated with the limestone. Many famous buildings in London are built from Portland limestone. In 1861, the Belgian chemist Ernest Solvay developed a more direct process for producing soda ash from salt and limestone through the use of ammonia. Find more words! 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